National Affairs: Keepers Kept

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? To
keep the official keepers of the law within the law they keep, the
National Commission on Law Enforcement last week reached out and drew
into its service as expert investigators two good lawyers Professor
Zechariah Chafee Jr. of the Harvard Law School and Walter H. Pollak,
Manhattan attorney. Their assignment: to upturn all possible facts
for the Commission's subcommittee on "Lawlessness of
governmental law enforcing officers." Libertarians were
heartened by the appointment of Professor Chafee for they knew him of
old as a thoroughgoing liberal...